Tag Archive for 'Human rights'

Juan Manuel Canales, Recipient of Jonathan Mann Award

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[This was originally posted in July of 2006]
The 2006 Jonathan Mann Award for Health and Human Rights was given to Juan Manuel Canales, a Mexican physician who has worked in the war zones of rural El Salvador and Chiapas, Mexico. This month the Social Medicine Portal highlights the work of this [...]

Emory Medical School Social Medicine Elective

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Are you curious about just exactly what “social medicine” means?  This course was designed to answer that question.  The Social Medicine Elective was organized by Drs. Timothy Holtz and Alyssa Finlay and - as can be seen by the titles - covers an array of topics. You can download the course lectures as PowerPoint™ presentations.  [...]